Formulas · Transform Dampness 化濕 · Seui Deukhyobang (世醫得效方)

Eliminate Dampness Decoction

Jeseup-tang

한글 제습탕 · Pinyin Chu Shi Tang

除濕湯

Composition 構成

Changchul Cang Zhu
蒼朮 창출 · Black Atractylodes

6 g
Chief 君
Hubak Hou Po
厚朴 후박 · Magnolia Bark

6 g
Deputy 臣
Banha Ban Xia
半夏 반하 · Pinellia

6 g
Deputy 臣
Gwakhyang Huo Xiang
藿香 곽향 · Korean Mint

3 g
Assistant 佐
Jinpi Chen Pi
陳皮 진피 · Aged Tangerine Peel

3 g
Assistant 佐
Saenggang Sheng Jiang
生薑 생강 · Fresh Ginger

14 g
Envoy 使
Daejo Da Zao
大棗 대조 · Jujube

8 g
Envoy 使
Gamcho Gan Cao
甘草 감초 · Licorice

2 g
Envoy 使

Total 48 g per packet (첩) · representative dosage — verify against source texts.

Received this formula from your practitioner? Amounts shown here are classical reference values — granule and prepared products differ. Always follow your prescribed dosage and directions.

Actions 效能

Dries damp and relieves heaviness of the whole body

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

Damp struck in
with heaviness over the whole body

Biomedical correlates

Generalized heaviness with dyspepsia

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

治中濕, 滿身重着. 蒼朮ㆍ厚朴ㆍ半夏各一錢半, 藿香ㆍ陳皮各七分半, 甘草五分. 右剉, 作一貼, 入薑七片, 棗二枚, 水煎服. 《得效》

Translation

Treats damp struck in, with heaviness fixed over the whole body. Atractylodes lancea, magnolia bark and pinellia 1.5 don each; agastache and tangerine peel 7.5 pun each; licorice 5 pun. Cut up, make one packet, add 7 slices of ginger and 2 jujubes, decoct in water and take. — Seui Deukhyobang 得效 (Donguibogam · Seup)

Clinical commentary 臨床

滿身重着 — heaviness fixed over the whole body — is the chapter's signature sign for damp, and 3.4.2 lists it among the six things damp does: binding it becomes panting and cough, soaking it becomes vomiting, seeping it becomes diarrhoea, overflowing it becomes oedema, stagnating with heat it becomes jaundice, and spread through the body it becomes this heaviness. Pyeongwi-san with pinellia and agastache — the plainest drying formula in the chapter. — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.